"""
...
Frankly, I'd dump the
backlog entirely. It is not helping you. Instead, do the most valuable,
smallest thing. Get feedback. Decide what to do next based on that
feedback. ...
...
"""
"...combining new ideas with your previous ones will produce something completely different."
— Steven Johnson
"Guillermo del Toro is famous for compiling books full of notes and drawings about his ideas before turning them into films, something he regards as essential to the process. ..."
– Trivia for “El Laberinto del Fauno” (2006) on imdb.com
“Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Backlogs are a waste … so are most roadmaps
Are you working on the most important thing? That’s the only thing that matters … ideas are cheap, it’s easy to find things to work on .. stop creating noise with backlogs and roadmaps
If it’s actually important it will come back up…
Consider, as a counterargument...
As a writer, I know that good ideas can be fleeting – and are precious – and must be captured.
Many well-known successful writers have mentioned that it is critical to capture those flashes of inspiration of an idea - and why many keep a notepad by their bedside, and carry one with them, everywhere they go.
Thus they recognize the importance of having a backlog of writing ideas.
I keep a separate professional journal for every client engagement - and also have a small spiral-bound notebook that I carry with me everywhere, and keep by my bedside.
— John Steinbeck
— Will Self